By evoking peak-era Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band during Ink’s Middle of the Map Festival at the Uptown Theater in May, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s concert at the Uptown Theater momentarily restored my faith in the viability of traditional rock and roll. The best songs on the setlist- “If We Were Vampires” and “Hope the High Road”- acted as previews of the forthcoming The Nashville Sound. It’s a drag, consequently, that those songs are far and away the album’s best tracks. I’ll probably listen to “If We Were Vampires and “Hope the High Road” for the remainder of my life, but I’m just not down with the rest of The Nashville Sound.
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I wrote a feature about Oleta Adams for KCUR.
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I reviewed Ann Wilson’s concert at the Uptown Theater.
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I reviewed George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic’s appearance at the Boulevardia festival.
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Willie Nelson was rained out on Saturday, but I reviewed opening sets by Dwight Yoakam and Robert Earl Keen.
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Concerts by John Legend and Portugal. The Man were my shows of the week for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
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I named My Brothers & Sisters the KCUR Band of the Week.
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I take note of Gerald Spaits latest release at Plastic Sax.
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My weekly music previews for The Kansas City Star are here and here.
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Prodigy of Mobb Deep has died.
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Ben Goldberg School’s The Humanities is RIYL Henry Threadgill, the combination of clarinet and accordion, Don Byron.
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I had a spiritual epiphany while listening to the opening selection of Ahmad Jamal’s excellent new Marseille. Here’s a music video for the fourth track.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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